Don’t miss your chance to order this very special issue! The pigeon is resting its wings after a decade of beautiful poetry & art. This will be our final issue. For the full list of contributors and samples from the issue, click the button below.
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is an evocative poetry collection that explores love, loss, and the search for belonging. From tiny New York apartments to intimate moments in the desert, this collection captures the essence of human connection and celebrates the unyielding strength found in moments of vulnerability.
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“Her studious-but-playful gaze falls on what she loves and lights it up: mule deer antlers are ‘moon-silvered,’ a coyote’s ‘well fed and swaggering like a senator,’ bluebird eggs seem ‘Insubstantial as rings of blue smoke suspended in air.’ But Levinson understands that we are finally as insubstantial as what we study; her melancholy negotiations with the fact of limit lends her seeing a poignant urgency.”
—Mark Doty, National Book Award-winning poet
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explores the natural beauty in his birth-state of Georgia, where his poems bring the reader to the lush coastal landscapes of the Barrier Islands and the nurturing comforts of Southern living.
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“Claudia Saleeby Savage’s provocative, transcendent poetry brilliantly captures the energy of live music, providing a perspective that can only come from inside the band onstage. This book is for those who find the systemless system of free jazz relaxing. Those who, like our fearless narrator, have had their hearts ‘savaged by grief’ and ‘hate boxes.’ Along with Pharoah Sanders, John and Alice Coltrane, and the author’s husband and musical partner John Savage, metal used for beauty alone ‘blows a horn to heaven.'”
—Christopher Luna, Inaugural Poet Laureate of Clark County, WA
and founder of Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic
“metal used for beauty alone proposes and enacts a world where instruments prevail in production and resonance over guns. Through careful visual composition and an experimental spirit that even the legends of jazz would admire, this chapbook pops off with flushed language and jolting creativity. Lively scores (not deadly shots) fire as we read, led by Savage as our witch observer who can ‘stun the moon,’ ‘hush the sirens,’ and ‘refold our brains’ to sort out systemic violence. The poet is a proxy to musicians, together disarming a trigger-happy death grip in favor of the power of clapping sax keys, markings for breath, and collapsing wordplay. Society in metal used for beauty alone is populated by healing dissonance, spiritual jazzers, and live shows, all pistoling a post-military-industrial complex through poetry… inviting us to tarab instead of annihilate.”
—Katherine Factor, author of A Sybil Society: Poems
We are very excited to announce the winners and look forward to sharing their chapbooks with you this Winter. Thank you to all of the poets who entered our second annual contest. We were astounded by the quality of submissions we received from all over the country, making our decision joyously difficult!
And special thanks to our wonderful judge, Tricia Knoll!
Lauren Tiven of St. Augustine, Florida for Moroccan Holiday
Christine Higgins of Towson, Maryland for Hello, Darling
Debbie Hall of Escondido, California for Falling Into the River
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Carie Juettner of Austin, Texas for Death Can’t Sleep
Julia Paul of Manchester, Connecticut for Staring Down the Tracks
Allison Thorpe of Lexington, Kentucky for By the Light of Women
Margaret Chula of Portland, Oregon for In the Shadows
published as Shadow Man
Zeina Azzam of Alexandria, Virginia for Bayna, Bayna
Nancy Hewitt of Swampscott, Massachusetts for This Slanted Scene
Martin Willits of Syracuse, New York for The Miles Before Sleep
Leonard Neufeldt of Gig Harbor, Washington for More-than-Human Nearness
John Davis of Bainbridge Island, Washington for Downhill Edge
Calvin Olsen of Chapel Hill, South Carolina for Grounded
Jed Myers of Seattle, Washington for Word of our Crossing
Victoria Nordlund of South Glastonbury, Connecticut for Homer Saw a Wine-Dark Sea
https://thepoetrybox.com/the-poetry-box-chapbook-prize-2023
We are very excited to announce the winners and look forward to sharing their chapbooks with you this Winter. Thank you to all of the poets who entered our first annual contest. We were astounded by the quality of submissions we received from all over the country, making our decision joyously difficult!
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Christopher Bogart of Eatontown, NJ
for
14: Antología del Sonoran
&
Gudrun Bortman of Santa Barbara, CA
for
Fireweed
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Clela Reed of Athens, Georgia
Silk
Dianne Avey of Anderson Island, Washington
Impossible Ledges
Lynn DeTurk of La Quinta, California
Kaddish: A Song for Two
Pamela R. Anderson of Munroe Falls, Ohio
Tap Dancing
Sally Zakariya of Arlington, Virginia
Other Voices, Other Lives
published as The Unknowable Lives of Other People
Tiel Aisha Ansari of Portland, Oregon
Country Well-Known as an Old Nightmare’s Stable
Thank you to all of the 156 poets who entered our first annual contest. We were astounded by the quality of submissions we received from all over the country, making our decision joyously difficult!
Christopher Bogart of Eatontown, New Jersey
Fourteen: Antología del Río Grande
Clela Reed of Athens, Georgia
Silk
Dianne Avey of Anderson Island, Washington
Impossible Ledges
Gudrun Bortman of Santa Barbara, California
Fireweed
Judy Mosher of Santa Fe, New Mexico
Shrinking Bones
Lynn DeTurk of La Quinta, California
Kaddish: A Song for Two
Pamela R. Anderson of Munroe Falls, Ohio
Tap Dancing
Penelope Scambly Schott of Portland, Oregon
November Quilt
Sally Zakariya of Arlington, Virginia
Other Voices, Other Lives
Tiel Aisha Ansari of Portland, Oregon
Country Well-Known as an Old Nightmare’s Stable
